Stalin's economic policies: Collectivisation and the Five Year Plans
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Stalin's Economic Policies:
The Five Year Plans:
What were they?
A government initiative to increase industrial production. Production targets were implemented for each industrial institution in the Soviet Union, by the Gosplan
How did the FYPs make use of Propaganda?
-The propaganda campaign was designed to inspire workers to meet the targets set.
-The campaigns focused on the heroic objective of the plan- framing it as a positive deed
-Claimed that the FYPs would bring about an end to capitalism.
- The Stakhanovite movement: august 1935 Alexi Stakhanov claimed that he had cut over 100 tonnes of coal in one 5 hour shift- his achievement was glorified by Stalin and he was used as propaganda.
The First Five-Year Plan:
approved in April 1929
- Justification for it was purely ideological- framed it as a socialist struggle, Stalin argued that it was necessary for preparation for a war against the USSR's capitalist enemies.
- Intense emphasis…
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